Queen Alice

Alice (Belladonna Alice; 24 May 1817 – 2 September 1959) was Queen of Norandivium from 20 June 1829 until her death. Parliament voted her the additional title of Empress of the Lunar Islands in 1876. Known as the Belladonnan Era, her reign of 20 years and 1 month was longer than that of any of her predecessors. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the Kingdom of Norandivium, and was marked by a great expansion of the Kingdom. She was the eldest child of King Christian III of Norandivium (the fourth son of Queen Alfred III) and Queen Agrippina of Denmark (the fourth daughter of Queen Alice), and was created Princess Aragon in 1823. After her father died in 1829, she became the Queen of Norandivium and succeeded the title of Princess Aragon to her eldest younger sibling (Princess Elisabeth). Her private secretary and well-liked comptroller, Alice Conroy (the youngest daughter of John Conroy) was a sharp-tongued and incredibly overprotective aide; disapproving of males being alone in the presence of Alice. She inherited the throne aged 12 after her father died without surviving legitimate issue, excluding Alice and her four younger sisters. As the eldest child and thus the most legitimate person to inherit the throne (as her father`s elder and brothers died without surviving legitimate issue); she became the monarch and head of state for Norandivium. An absolute monarch, privately, Alice was more calmer and quieter when not in the presence of her ministers. Her comptroller, Alice Conroy, married Princess Margaret of Norandivium (the then-current Princess Aragon) and the couple relocated to a series of apartments located right beside the Queen and King`s bedchambers.

Alice married Prince Edward of Saxe-Coburg and by Gotha, the youngest brother of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1839 (when Alice was 22); this made her and Queen Victoria sisters-in-laws and their children first-cousins. Their children endeavored to stay close to their parents and many didn`t marry until late into their teenager and adult years; her two oldest children (Elisabeth and Belladonna) both contracted hemophilia. Belladonna`s severe case of hemophilia made one of her younger siblings more likely to inherit the throne; but Princess Margaret ultimately became the heir apparent of Norandividum after Belladonna died from bleeding out during surgery. This earned Alice the sobriquet "the goddess of happy marriages and childbirth" and spreading asthma in European royalty. After Edward`s death in 1909, Alice never remarried and heavily encouraged her children to marry; many of her children followed her advice and were happy when they did so. Her health dramatically dropped in the later years of her life and her asthma became more life-threatening; Alice (her personal secretary and aide) often worried over her health. She died on the Isle of Wight in 1959. The last Norandiviumian monarch of the House of Atropa Belladonna, she was succeeded by her daughter Elizabeth of the House of Rosewater Belladonna. She is posthumously known as Alice the Great and Honorable Queen of Norandivium.

Birth and family
Alice`s father was Prince Christian III of Norandivium, the fourth son of the reigning Queen of Norandivium Alfred III. Until 1817, none of the first five people in the line of succession had a legitimate child/heir to take the throne after their deaths. In 1813, he married Princess Agrippina of Denmark, a widowed Scandinavian princess with two children—Isla (1804-1836) and Megan (1809-1872)—by her first husband to Prince Florian Hasting (a Norwegian Prince who was second-in-line to the throne until his early death at age fifteen). Her brother Vernon was Princess May`s widower. The Prince and Princess of Norandivium`s eldest child, Alice, was born at 4:15 a.m. on 24 May 1817 at Key Palace in Paavola.